The peculiarities of Hotmail have nothing to do with Word. It is in any case
bad practice to open attachments directly at the best of times, save to the
hard drive and open from there.
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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Larry wrote:
Hi, hope you can help, clicking on attachments from Hotmail i get a
word pop up file dialog box with the "save" and "Cancel option" but
the "open" option isnt offered. when i right click on the attachment
link in an attempt to open that way nothin happens with the open
selection, i dont get the "open with" option either i have tried
holding ctrl and clicking on the attachment link, file association in
control panel (.doc) i have to save the attachment first before
being able to open the attachment, something i dont want to have to
be doing. is there a setting within word /internet options that needs
to be set? This occurs for excel, word and PDF attachments. if it
works for one i hope it should work for the others i use word 2003 on
Vista pc
thanks
Larry
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